Category Archives: Relationships

Make Frequent Stops

imageTRUCK MAKES FREQUENT STOPS
I was driving behind this truck with a good friend in my car and took a moment to snap this photo.  I said, “This will be a great title for my next blog!” If I have to have patience to drive behind this big truck blocking my beautiful view that could be quite frustrating.  Then I quickly thought, “if the truck needs to be make frequent stops, shouldn’t we?” Certainly we should.  For even the Word declares in Genesis 2:1-2, “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.  By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing ; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work.”    If God took the seventh day to rest then in the beginning of time, that is probably a good indicator that it is also necessary for us as humans to stop frequently and take a rest as well.

We get so busy in life with full-time jobs, relationships, parenting, social networking, exercising, and so many more activities.  Even as Christians we need to take time daily for prayer, regular worship, study of the bible, church attendance, activities and fellowship.  This kind of consistent business, even though it is good for us, requires us to rest.   Sometimes it may even mean that we don’t answer the frequent phone calls, text messages and perhaps even a disconnect from social media so that we give our minds and hearts a break from life.  Is that a bad thing to just take a moment and stop engaging yourself in every activity under the sun?   Continue reading


Camouflage

camouflage-warrior-semmick-photoStop Camouflaging Your Pain! Despite all the colors, distractions and beating around the bush, when you look into the eye you see that pain is still present with you. Pain has a name too.  It is called physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness; a distressing sensation in a particular part of the body; mental or emotional suffering or torment.  As Christians we cannot ever really confess that we are in pain.  We have to hide it.  We must declare “All is well” when it is not really well. We can speak, yell and cry out but what is happening on the inside of us really?  Does that even count?  Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about it?  Where is my real story in the bible?  I don’t see it.  The story where hope dies, faith dies, love dies, dreams die, plans die and your heart is not really healed at all because of the frequency.   Continue reading


The Silent Prayer Works

A-Prayer-For-YouI love the life of Hannah in the book of 1 Samuel chapter one. You can reference this in verses 1-19, with a title, “Hannah Pours Out Her Heart to God”, in The Message Translation.  In this passage Elkanah has two wives, Hannah and Peninnah.  This becomes a story of rivalry where Hannah has no children and Peninnah has many.

I believe Hannah has such an amazing story that so many of us can relate to.  She has a prayer that all of us have prayed.  For some this is a prayer that they know often which is called “the silent prayer.”  That is the kind of prayer where there is such an anguish of soul that you really have no words to say but only a sound coming from you as a harmonious cry to God’s ears.  It is the type of prayer where you think you are not even heard and that is why you are crying all the more.  But I love how Hannah, this woman of God, makes such a decision for a turning point in her life.  Continue reading


Overcoming Strongholds

WarfareI wish that I could tell you that it was going to be very easy. That your process of renewal and healing would happen overnight or in a synch! But that is not actually the case. It is not easy to bounce back from a place that has caused severe wounds such as breaking ungodly soul ties, overcoming a divorce, the loss of a loved one in any capacity, overcoming sickness, and abandonment, betrayal, breaking barriers of addiction, depression, co-dependencies, or any other experiences that have taken up deep places in your soul. Continue reading